hi,
i was delighted to see .Net 2.0 has an excellent class for working with FTP. looking back i can't believe it wasn't part of 1.1.
i noticed there was no built-in support for reporting the progress of an FTP operation to a user interface. I needed this functionality in an app i'm working on so i built a class and i'm posting it here in case anyone is interested.
The class FtpProgress inherits from BackgroundWorker, so you just drag an FtpProgress component onto your form, hook up events for Completed and ProgressChanged, and your laughing. There is a mini class called FtpSettings which stores all the connect info etc to pass in as a paramter to the RunWorkerAsync() method.
I have a variable called 'ChunkSize' which determines the size of each buffer written to the FtpWebRequest output stream. It is set to 4k by default, and you can increase this if you want for very fast networks but i don't think it will make much difference. I think the overhead is negligible.
Download the
source code and demo application [30 k].
It only does upload, so if you want download functionality, you can do the mirror-image of the upload code, i.e. instead of writing buffers to the output stream, read it from the input stream, or however that would work :)
here is all the code you need to start an Upload, and report progress:
private void btnUpload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// create a new FtpSettings class to store all the paramaters for the FtpProgress thread
FtpSettings f = new FtpSettings();
f.Host = this.txtHost.Text;
f.Username = this.txtUsername.Text;
f.Password = this.txtPassword.Text;
f.TargetFolder = this.txtDir.Text;
f.SourceFile = this.txtUploadFile.Text;
f.Passive = this.chkPassive.Checked;
f.Port = Int32.Parse(this.txtPort.Text);
this.ftpProgress1.RunWorkerAsync(f);
}
private void ftpProgress1_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
this.toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = e.UserState.ToString(); // the message will be something like: 45 Kb / 102.12 Mb
this.toolStripProgressBar1.Value = Math.Min(this.toolStripProgressBar1.Maximum, e.ProgressPercentage);
}